The Genomic Data Challenges Of The Future

We strongly believe that only digital health can bring healthcare into the 21st century and make patients the point-of-care. Imagine genes as sentences and genomes as entire books consisting of tens of thousands of chains of words. Interpreting the whole book for the first time by completing the Human Genome Project took more than 15 years. Its fascinating how far humanity had come and even more so, if we look at the evolution of genome sequencing since 2006, the signature year when the DNA double spiral uncovered its secrets for the very first time. The technical conditions, the time and the cost of sequencing genomes were reduced by a factor of 1 million in less than 10 years. Anyone can have a genetic test within weeks. Moreover, anyone can get their whole genome sequenced for some hundreds of dollars, and the price is expected to further fall in the future. As a first, Veritas Genetics has been hailed as the first company to be able to sequence, analyze and interpret whole human genome data for less than $1,000.